2019: Top outdoor stories
Sun., Dec. 29, 2019
Paul Swanson heaves a magnet into the Spokane River on July 8, 2019. Swanson started magnet fishing about two years ago. Since then he's started a club that's attracted numerous members, many of whom are recovering from drug addiction. ELI FRANCOVICH/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review)
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The most-read outdoor stories of 2019, presented chronologically:
- Washington’s first Karelian Bear Dogs, credited with busting poachers and saving kittens, die
- Wolf trapping is a tool Idaho wildlife managers want to keep, but at what price?
- Supreme Court rules National Park Service not valid on rivers in Alaska national parks
- Washington hunter bags world-record moose in Ferry County
- Spokane climber Jess Roskelley missing and presumed killed by avalanche in Canadian Rockies; David Lama, Hansjorg Auer also presumed dead
- Popularity of magnet fishing grows in Spokane despite muddy legal, ethical waters
- WDFW commission considers removing bag limits on bass, walleye in response to orca crisis
- Flying feline: Leaping cougar snags a midair turkey dinner
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